The exhibition Part File Score by Susan Philipsz at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin presents a new sound installation by the 2010 Turner Prize winner. Susan Philipsz’ installation is based on the parallels between the train station as means of transport and the moved life of the composer Hanns Eisler (1898-1962). Eisler immigrated to the US in the 1930s but had to leave the country in 1948 due to his pro-communist convictions. In the 1920s and 1950s he lived in Berlin. Susan Philipsz has developed a 24-channel sound installation (24 pillars in the main hall of Hamburger Bahnhof), which is based on three film music compositions by Eisler. Large-format banner print are installed on the walls of the hall, which show Eisler’s musical scores, but are overlaid with pages from his FBI file. The FBI had started a file on Eisler when he entered the U.S. for the first time in 1935. In this video, Susan Philipsz explains significances of the concept of the exhibition and talks in detail about the developing process of this project. The show runs until May 04, 2014.

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